Equinale Horse Film Festival (5)

Festival start: 25 August 2023      Festival end: 27 August 2023

The Equinale®
The Equinale® is an international film festival for horse films and films, which horses play an important roll.

The Equinale® is an event which takes place over four days.

Entertainment films (films for adults and children), documentaries, advertisements, music and educational films are going to be shown.

There will also be lectures about horses which will definitely catch the interest of the young and old horse fans.

The highlight of this event is the giving of awards to the films in the various categories.

The films are going to be awarded by a mixed jury. The jury is composed of horse thrilled people out of the riding scene.

The children and youth films are going to be rated from a separate jury.

Furthermore two public awards are going to be awarded.

The big film party on Saturday, on which the films are going to be awarded, is a social event.

To round off this event, a small exclusive horsefair and horseart exhibition invites you to go for a stroll. Fashion, art, interior, culinary delicacies including horse products and presentations are expected to reduce the waiting time between the films.

award, trophy, prize packages,

Festival Rules and Regulations

1. The Equinale® support association is legally and economically responsible for the festival program and competition.

2. The completed entry form, all necessary documents, the entry fee and a screening copy of the submitted film must have been submitted by february 1st 2019

To
Equinale®
Schloss Neuhoff
Lütte Werder 9
19417 Bibow OT Neuhof

Required formats are
DVD, BluRay (no copy protection or region coding please)
OR harddrive/stick,( NO RAW)
All sections of the form have to be completed and every form must be signed.
3. All submitted films will be considered
in the chosen categories.

4. This competition is open to film productions
with a focus on horse films and films, which horses play an important roll.

5. An early bird entry fee of 25 € per film in one category applies
(Value added tax included)
Short/music films up to 15 min run time are 15,-
Commercial Spots 15,-

Please transfer the amount to our account with

to our PayPal Account (Account address: initiativeschlossneuhoff@gmx.de) to arrive on or before june 1st 2019)

6. The festival organizers
appoint a qualified jury that selects
the films to be screened at the festival and nominate three films per category.

The festival board appoints a professional judging panel that decides on the festivals award winners.

7. Screening copies are insured for
their print value during the festival. The risks of deliveries to and from the festival are covered by the applicant.

The court of jurisdiction is in Wismar.

8. The costs of sending the viewing copy as well as the screening copy are covered by the applicant. This also applies to film copies forwarded
from other festivals, in which case
the applying parties must make appropriate arrangements with the relevant festivals.

9. All copies from non
EU member states must be clearly marked with a customs declaration stating the following: ”For cultural purposes only. No commercial value.” These parcels must also be accompanied by an invoice stating a value of no more than 10 Euro.
Costs arising from incorrect declarations will be charged to the account of the sender. Customs declaration for return import have to be attached to the consignment.

10. If the original version is neither in English nor in German the film should have subtitles in either language.

11. No film may be withdrawn from the festival program after submission.

12. Short films may be no longer than 15 minutes and can be submitted as MP4. Exceptions possible upon application.

13. Independent productions must be self
-financed without the involvement of a contracting authority.

14. In cooperation with different institutions,
the festival management organizes "Best of Equinale®" events, in which outstanding films from the festival programme are shown. These events are non commercial. With their registration, the submitters declare their agreement that the submitted film may be screened in that context.

Submitters also grant consent for their productions to be available for viewing by delegates for the purpose of promoting the festival.

That use does not constitute a claim for financial compensation.

15. Submitters automatically grant consent that up to three minutes of each submitted production can be made available free of charge
to broadcast media, as well as film stills and photographs to print media including the web.
Such use is exclusively for the purpose of promoting the festival.

16. The submitter of a film declares that he/she is authorized to submit the film to
Equinale® free of all charges to Equinale®
He/she confirms to have all the necessary rights for the film screenings at the festival
and to be authorized to transfer those rights(to apply as in Items 14 and 15
of these festival regulations)

He/she assures that those uses do not infringe any copyrights or related rights orpersonal rights
of third parties.In the case of third party claims resulting from violation of such
rights the submitter must exempt Equinale® from all third party claims including related
necessary and reasonable legal costs.

17. A film, that has been submitted once and was not chosen, can only be submitted one more time.

18. All viewing material and entry material
remain in the Equinale® Film Archive.

19. In case of disputes the German version of these regulations applies.